The world shares him and London claims him, but Stratford-on-Avon intends to spend 2016 celebrating Shakespeare as their man: the bard of Avon, who was born there in 1564, and died there 400 years ago. 

Stratford remained hugely important throughout Shakespeare's life, argues Paul Edmondson, the head of learning and research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. "People have seen Shakespeare as a Dick Whittington figure, who turns his back on Stratford and his family, goes to London to earn his fortune and only comes back to die," he said. "But Stratford is where he bought land and property, where he kept his library, where he lived and read and thought. We are going to spend the year re-emphasizing the importance of Shakespeare, the man of Stratford." 

The anniversary of the death of the most famous and the most performed playwright in the world will be marked across Britain and the globe. Macbeth is about to open in Singapore, Romeo and Juliet in Brussels. Shakespeare's Globe is completing the first world tour, in which it has taken Hamlet to almost every country. North Korea is still holding out, though. 

The Globe director recently jokily claimed Shakespeare as a true Londoner. Stratford, however, will be insisting that the town made and educated Shakespeare. "His old school room in Stratford-on-Avon where Shakespeare learned 'small Latin and less Greek' --as kindly laughed at by his friend Ben Johnson--will open its doors, scarred by centuries of naughty schoolboys, to mark 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death," said Paul Edmondson. 

Shakespeare bought the splendid New Place, the second best house in the town, when he had made his fortune on the London stage. "You don't buy a house like New Place and not live there," Paul said. He believes that after Shakespeare bought it, all his thinking time was spent there, and that the late plays, including The Tempest, were at least planned in his library and probably written there. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is being performed in Singapore?
2. What about in Brussels?
3. What country has Shakespeare's Globe not been to?
4. Why not?
5. What play are they performing on their tour?
6. Where was Shakespeare born?
7. When?
8. Where did he die?
9. Who claims him?
10. What is being celebrated?
11. Where does Paul Edmondson work?
12. Is in in charge of something?
13. Who does he compare Shakespeare to?
14. Where did he purchase property?
15. Where was he educated?
16. How much Latin did he learn?
17. What about Greek?
18. Where did he visit to think?
19. Did he own it?
Answer: 1. Macbeth
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. North Korea
4. He is a true Londoner.
5. Hamlet
6. Avon
7. 1564
8. Stratford-on-Avon, his birthplace
9. London
10. The anniversary of his death
11. The Globe
12. head of learning and research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
13. Dick Whittington
14. Stratford
15. Stratford
16. small
17. less than Latin
18. New Place
19. Yes.

Problem: (WIRED) -- If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks. 

The reason? Siri ships everything you say to her to a big data center in Maiden, North Carolina. And the story of what really happens to all of your Siri-launched searches, e-mail messages and inappropriate jokes is a bit of a black box. 

IBM CIO Jeanette Horan told MIT's Technology Review this week that her company has banned Siri outright because, according to the magazine, "The company worries that the spoken queries might be stored somewhere." 

Apple's new 'spaceship' campus: What will the neighbors say? 

It turns out that Horan is right to worry. In fact, Apple's iPhone Software License Agreement spells this out: "When you use Siri or Dictation, the things you say will be recorded and sent to Apple in order to convert what you say into text," Apple says. Siri collects a bunch of other information -- names of people from your address book and other unspecified user data, all to help Siri do a better job. 

How long does Apple store all of this stuff, and who gets a look at it? Well, the company doesn't actually say. Again, from the user agreement: "By using Siri or Dictation, you agree and consent to Apple's and its subsidiaries' and agents' transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of this information, including your voice input and User Data, to provide and improve Siri, Dictation, and other Apple products and services." 
1. Who is the Chief Information Officer at IBM?
2. Who isn't allowed at IBM?
3. Who's that?
4. Does the iPhone license agreement say you can be recorded?
5. And sent to Apple so it can be?
6. What's something Siri saves?
7. What do they say is the reason for that?
8. Does Apple spell out who reads those texts?
9. Is it just when talking to Siri?
10. What else?
11. Where is the recorded info sent?
12. Where is it located?
13. Where's that?
14. What is IBM afraid will happen?
15. What is something you allow Apple to do with the info if you agree to their terms?
16. Does that include your recorded voice?
17. Just Apple?
18. Who else?
19. Do they store your user info, too?
20. What's IBM's nickname?
Answer: 1. Jeanette Horan
2. Siri.
3. Voice-activated digital assistant.
4. Yes.
5. Converted into text,
6. Names of people from your address book
7. To help Siri do a better job.
8. No.
9. No.
10. Dictation.
11. A data center.
12. Maiden.
13. North Carolina
14. The spoken queries might be stored.
15. Consent to Apple transmitting your data.
16. Yes.
17. No.
18. Their subsidiaries' and agents.
19. Yes.
20. Big Blue.

question: (CNN) -- Three people have been charged in last year's theft of the famous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, a prosecutor said Friday. 

The prosecutor, Robert Parys, said he could not immediately confirm details about those charged, but Poland's official PAP news agency reported the main suspect is a Swedish man, Anders Hoegstroem. 

Prosecutors say Hoegstroem incited two Poles to steal the sign, which sat atop the entrance to the camp, PAP reported. He pleaded not guilty, and would face a sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted, the news agency reported. 

Hoegstroem was arrested in February in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Swedish court allowed him to be transferred to Poland in April, PAP said. 

The sign reading "Arbeit Macht Frei" -- German for "Work Sets You Free" -- was emblematic of the Nazi camps of World War II. It was stolen in December of last year, prompting outrage around the world. 

The sign was found 70 hours later in a village near Torun, roughly 210 miles (340 kilometers) to the north, and had been chopped into three parts, PAP reported. 

The men managed to remove the heavy iron sign by unscrewing it from one side and pulling off on the other, police spokeswoman Agnieszka Szczygiel said at the time. 

More than 1 million people died in gas chambers or were starved to death in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex; about 90 percent of the victims were Jews. 


1. What was stolen?
2. From where?
3. Who was the main instigator?
4. Where is he from?
5. How many helped him?
6. Where were they from?
7. Where was he located?
8. How long will he spend in jail?
9. where was the it found?
10. when?
11. What had been done to it?
12. What did the sign mean?
13. What is is a relic of?
14. How far away is the town?
15. How many people died?
16. How many were Jewish?
17. How did they get it?
18. Who said that?
19. Who was prosecuting?
20. Where did it sit?
****
answer:
1. "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign
2. the Auschwitz concentration camp
3. Anders Hoegstroem
4. Sweden
5. Two
6. Poland
7. Stockholm, Sweden
8. 10 years if convicted
9. in a village near Torun
10. 70 hours later
11. it had been chopped into three parts
12. "Work Sets You Free"
13. Nazi camps of World War II
14. roughly 210 miles
15. More than 1 million
16. about 90 percent
17. by unscrewing it from one side and pulling off on the other
18. police spokeswoman Agnieszka Szczygiel
19. Robert Parys
20. atop the entrance to the camp